Where does BÜHLER Motor GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BÜHLER Motor GMBH ranks #7,122 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does BÜHLER Motor GMBH hold?

BÜHLER Motor GMBH holds 46 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is BÜHLER Motor GMBH's Innovation Score?

BÜHLER Motor GMBH has an Innovation Score of 42.6 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does BÜHLER Motor GMBH focus on?

BÜHLER Motor GMBH's top technology area is H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines) with 31 patents, ranking #89 of 1,724 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

Is BÜHLER Motor GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BÜHLER Motor GMBH's recent grant velocity is +93% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for BÜHLER Motor GMBH's patents?

BÜHLER Motor GMBH's patents average 14.6 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the BÜHLER Motor GMBH patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

BÜHLER Motor GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 46 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bühler ranks #7,122 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 46 patents across 32 technology areas.

#7,122
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.6/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: +93%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7122 · Foreign Corporation #7,122 · 46 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 46 grants
UPPER-Q #7,122/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Avive Solutions
CPC-FOCUS H02K · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +93% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Avive Solutions, Inc. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Bühler’s 42.6 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 13.3 pts (31%) Velocity 0.6 pts (1%) Breadth 20.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mueller Textil · near

43
WANdisco · near

43
BÜHLER Motor · this assignee

43
Continental… · near

43
Universita Degli… · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bühler's Innovation Score is 42.6/100 (top 30% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Bühler?

Each dot is one of Bühler’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Bühler’s own 14.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Bühler vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Bühler's grants concentrate

BÜHLER Motor GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 67.4% of grants classified under H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (16 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Bühler sits between Avive Solutions, Inc. and CK Materials LAB Co., Ltd..

Bühler's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, BÜHLER Motor GMBH moved from 36 to 3 grants (0.08x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Avive Solutions

46
Binj Laboratories

46
Bradshaw Internat…

46
Breeo

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C Uyemura &

46
Canon Components

46
Changsha Universi…

46
CK Materials LAB

46
BÜHLER Motor ◀

46

What this shows BÜHLER holds 46 patents at rank #7,122, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BÜHLER

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,122 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in BÜHLER's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for BÜHLER, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines), BÜHLER ranks #89 of 1,724 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Continental Structural Plastics, Inc. 43 Universita Degli Studi DI Firenze 43 WANdisco, Inc. 43 Mueller Textil GMBH 43

Bühler's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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BÜHLER Motor GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	2.2%
2017	3	6.5%
2018	1	2.2%
2019	10	21.7%
2020	10	21.7%
2021	16	34.8%
2022	1	2.2%
2023	1	2.2%
2024	1	2.2%
2025partial year	2	4.3%

Which technologies does BÜHLER Motor GMBH patent most?

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 31

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 13

F16H - Gearing 9

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 7

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 7

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 6

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 3

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 3

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 2

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 2

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 2

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 2

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 2

Top 15 of 32 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

BÜHLER Motor GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

BÜHLER Motor GMBH's lead technology class is H02K (Dynamo-electric Machines), 67.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H02K
Ranked #7,122 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare BÜHLER Motor GMBH against Avive Solutions, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.6/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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